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thats fairly similar to the noise mine makes, i'd just keep a close eye on it, seeing as my drive started out saying it was healthy for a handful of months before freaking out and then even later dying

I have had the same noise coming from one of my three 2TB barracudas everytime I booted up and it eventually died after a while.... so I wouldnt put anything important on it! On another annoying side note, I RMA'd the drive to seagate and the sent me the SAME drive back claiming to have "fixed" it and its making clicking noises and today windows notified me the drive is dying AGAIN (yellow drive health blah blah blah) im PISSED I own 5 2tb barracudas and this is the only one to do this to me, and if seagate doesn't want to fix the problem, im probably not buying another one of their drives tbh. Sorry for a bit of a rant, but just giving you a bit of a heads up on what to expect if you do rma it in (EDIT: no its not normal for that noise to happen, hence why I mentioned Ive only had 1 drive do that out of 5)

So, I've been just looking at components on Newegg and the like, and I notice that there are quite a few variations of RGB ram, not just from Gskill and Corsair, but quite a few others as well. Now, from videos and such, I have an idea of what a lot of techtubers think of the Gskill RGB ram, (I personally dont care for the way it looks), but I was wondering if anyone else thought it would be cool if @LinusTech did a roundup of different RGB ram, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Ok, that makes sense

So its not that it wouldnt be a viable solution, just one that would take too much time/money to switch to...

I know there's probably an obvious answer for this, but why isn't there just another socket in the motherboard for a GPU, instead of even going through the PCI express slot in the first place? Then you would just have a graphics chip that would be installed similar to a CPU. (Just asking bc I tried a google search and got nothing useful)

Hi, I use my current setup for composing music and working with my composing software. An important thing to keep in mind when using softwares like this is that you are almost definitely going to want more than 8gb of ram. I use Cubase for my after-notation software sound mixing, and it eats ram like nobodies business when im using my EastWest Quantum leap libraries on my system. There are even situations where I use almost all of my 32gb of ram. As for a CPU, I find that the nature of my work, personally, favors a couple more cores to work with, so I went with ryzen (and im upgrading to 7 soon whooooo), if you are set on intel though, I'd look into seeing if you could find a SKU that gives you a couple more cores, even if it isnt clocked quite as high. When working with production software its just super important to make sure you have the headroom to make those kind of things work. I mean, you might be able to get away with 8gb, it certainly will make it easier if you have at least 16. (my previous setup would glitch out and say it was out of memory if I tried to load too many virtual instruments XP)

I went and tracked down the marketplace sellers site, and the have an extended 90 day return policy. I'm going to try to return it through there and just buy some new HDDs. If they wont let me return them, I'll just keep them for a rainy day or for when I feel like maybe making a server someday. ' > '

Oh goodness, looking at the stuff, it might just be better to bite the bit and buy two new hard drives sad

How much is that going to cost/ are there any good ones that you guys would suggest?

So I recently (like literally yesterday) finished building my computer and I ran into a problem: the two 2TB hard drives I bought to go with my PC are actually server hard drives with the SAS interface. I can use my computer for now (seeing as my M.2 500GB SSD is there), but I would really like to get my extra 4TB for my extensive sound libraries for my composing (EWQL was supposed to be almost exclusively on one drive) So to cut to the point, what can I do? I can't (and don't really want to) send the hard drives back. They were the first component I bought, and because I bought some of my components on Newegg "Flass Sales" when I had the funds, it is long past the RMA period. What I would prefer is a way to simply connect the drives to my computer, if if I do lose a little bis of speed. I've been lookin at these cables from Newegg to fix my woes, but I just wanted to check to see if they would work. Full computer breakdown, if it helps: GIGABYTE AORUS GA-AX370-Gaming K7 (rev. 1.0) AM4 AMD X370 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 DirectX 12 GV-N1060XTREME-6GD 6GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 ATX Video Card AMD RYZEN 5 1600 6-Core 3.2 GHz (3.6 GHz Turbo) Socket AM4 65W YD1600BBAEBOX Desktop Processor LG 12X Blu-Ray Disc Drive M-DISC Support Model UH12NS40 - OEM Corsair Certified RMx Series RM650x 650W 80 Plus Gold Full Modular Power Supply (CP-9020091-NA/RF) 2x CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000) Samsung 850 EVO M.2 2280 500 GB SSD